Slightly similar topic, rather than wanting a repo I can access more easily [I already manage one for work and one for a smaller community [osjava.org]], I'd like to see the nightly builds of Jakarta Commons be deployed as SNAPSHOTs to the Maven/iBiblio repository.
Hen On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, __matthewHawthorne wrote: > I'm using Maven, but I frequently run into situations where a version of > a jar I need isn't on ibiblio. For example, yesterday at work I needed > the postgres 7.4 jdbc driver, and also the new xdoclet 1.2, neither of > which are there yet. > > For just a single developer, it's as easy as copying the jar to my local > repository. However, in a multi-developer, multi-site situation, it > becomes a bit harder. I don't want to have to manually provide these > jars to my fellow developers. For these newer jars, I'm thinking of > checking them into our version control system and using Maven's jar > override feature until they are uploaded onto ibiblio. > > Now, I've already filed requests for these files in the maven-upload > category in Jira as the Maven guys have suggested. However, this > process seems to take some time. > > My idea is to create a developer repository somewhere on an > apache/jakarta machine, that any committer can write to. You could put > a jar there, specify this url as a secondary repository, and be able to > work until the jar gets put on ibiblio. > > It's just a quick idea that I thought of, that may make things easier. > If I need a newer version of [betwixt] or [sql] or some other unreleased > component, I can build it myself and put it in this developer repository. > > I'm already doing something like this in my public_html directory, but > I thought that maybe some other developers would like to do the same > thing. Think about it: after a commons component is released, how long > does it take to get up on ibiblio? In my opinion, it should be > available in a remote repository, somewhere, as soon as it is released. > For example, [primitives] and [dbutils] still aren't there, and were > released over a month ago. > > What do you think? Is this a good idea or would it just create more > headaches? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
